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By November 11 Ukraine has already harvested 58 million tons of major crops

14 November , 2022  

Ukrainian agrarians harvested 58.11 million tons of major crops from the total area of 16.08 million hectares by November 11, with 5 million tons harvested from 0.94 million hectares during the 4-11 November period, the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food Products said on Friday.
The report specifies that during the week the total area of agricultural land, from which the crops were harvested, increased by 4 percentage points (p.p.) – up to 76% of the previously planned areas.
In terms of crops harvesting of wheat, barley, peas and rapeseed is completed. Millet was harvested at 95% (no change within a week), buckwheat – 95% (no change), sunflower – 93% (+6 p.p.), soybeans – 91% (+6 p.p.), sugar beet – 83% (+10 p.p.), corn – 39% (+9 p.p.).
According to Ministry of Agricultural Policy, the final yield of wheat in the current season amounted to 19.2 million tons from 4.7 million hectares, barley – 5.5 million tons from 1.6 million hectares, rape – 3.1 million tons from 1.96 million hectares, pea – 261 tons from 111.5 thousand hectares.
In addition, by November 11, a total of 9.5 million tons of sunflower (+0.5 million tons per week) from 4.4 million hectares (+0.3 million ha), 9.6 million tons of corn (+3.3 million tons) from 1.6 million hectares (+0.5 million ha), 7.3 million tons of sugar beets (+0.9 million tons) from 149 thousand hectares (+44 thousand hectares), 1 million hectares of rape from 1.6 million hectares (+0.5 million ha) and 2 million hectares of peas (+0.5 million ha) were yielded. ha (+44 thousand ha), 3.4 million tons of soybeans (+0.3 million tons) from 1.4 million ha (+0.1 million ha), 153 thousand tons of buckwheat (+2 thousand tons) from 112 thousand ha (+1 thousand ha), and 98 thousand tons of millet (no change) from 42.6 thousand ha (no change).
According to the Ministry, the average yield of all crops in the current season was 42.4 c/ha, including corn – 58.3 c/ha, wheat – 41.2 c/ha, barley – 35.1 kg/ha, rape – 28.9 kg/ha, soybeans – 24 kg/ha, peas – 23.4 kg/ha, millet – 23.1 kg/ha, sunflower – 21.9 kg/ha, buckwheat – 13.6 kg/ha, sugar beets – 489 kg/ha.
As reported, Ukraine in 2021 harvested a record crop of cereals, legumes and oilseeds in the amount of 106 million tons: cereals and legumes – 84 million UAH, oilseeds – 22.6 million tons.
Last year a total of 32.4 million tons of wheat, 40 million tons of corn, 10 million tons of barley, 581.5 thousand tons of peas, 191 thousand tons of millet and 110 tons of buckwheat were harvested. Sunflower harvest amounted to 16.3 million tons, soybeans – 3.4 million tons and rapeseed – 2.9 million tons.

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